On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 04:31:55PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 03:28:47PM -0400, Steaphan Greene wrote: > > I've been frustrated for a while by the fact that debian doesn't seem to > > have a kernel to support my router (which is a dual pentium-MMX) > > out-of-the-box. I also notice that this seems to still be true (so far) > > for sarge. While it is no big deal to roll my own kernel with > > make-kpkg, it is really a pain to do so every time a new fault is found > > with the kernel - which has happened a lot lately. > > > > Is there a reason why SMP support is only included for 686 and AMD > > processors? Am I missing something? Is there something I can do to > > help change this for sarge? Any info would be appreciated. > > While this thread seems to drift into all kinds of silliness let's > return to the real question. > > Except for a longer build time there's no real reason to not support > SMP for pentium-class cpus. Please fill a wishlist bug against the > kernel package so this is archived, but I can't guarantee this will > still happen for sarge.
I am pretty reluctant to add new flavours at this time, even though I personally suggested adding p4-smp to enable access hyperthreading. What do others think? -- Horms
